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A. J & J. H. MARSHALL.

GRAIN THRASHERAND SEPARATOR. No. 302,010. Patented July 15, 1884.

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-UNITED STATES PATENT FrIcE.

ALBERT J. M RsHALL AND JOSIAH H. MARSHALL, or EVANSVILLE, WIS.)

GRAIN THRASHER AND S EPARATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,010, dated July 15, 1884.

Application filed February 18, 1884. (N0 model.)

ment of parts, as hereinafter fully described,

and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification,-

Referring to the drawings, 1) is the thrashing-cylinder; a,'its shaft; 0, the lllOtOPShEtfh; e, a counter-shaft geared with the motor-shaft by bevel-wheels f, and g a'gear-Wheel on the opposite end of the counter-shaft e, which gear-wheel meshes with a pinion on the cylinder-shaft for driving. the same. The remainder of the machine is to be driven from a pulley mounted on'the counter-shaft outside of the gear-wheel g. The sieve-shaker s Lil is suspended by short side links, t, and is confingers of the different bars, which is a diffinext bar at having fingers, and overlap said fingers to prevent the straw from falling down and being clogged in the carrier between the culty in separators having fingers falling short of each other. Another difiiculty with such fingers is that while they are thrust up quickly by the contact of the arms a with the studs 0 they do not fall quickly enough to keep ahead of the straw and prevent it from working under theends of the fingers and clogging the separator. To avoid this we provide said fingers with springs to thrust them downin advance of the straw, and in this case we have arranged a torsion or other spring, 1), with each finger-bar an, connecting one end with said bar at the middle or other point and theother end with one of'the chains of the carrier Z. These springs hold the fingers close against the. cross-bars of the carrier, so that the bars are enabled to run against the surface of the chute q in their return course, and thus save the expense and space required for a special carrier to discharge the grain off from said chute into the sieveshaker 8.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a straw carrier and separator, the combination of the carrier-belts Z, rocking bars m, beater'fingers k, arms a, studs 0, and springs for accelerating the closing action of the fin gers, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the endless carrierbelts Z, beater-fingers k, springs for accelerating the closing action of the fingers, and also for holding said fingers closed on'the returning side of carrier, and the chute q, for delivering the grain to the shaker s, substantiaily as described.

ALBERT J. MARSHALL. JOSIAH H. MAasHALL. 

